by WilliamShakespeare (Author), StanleyWells (Editor)
The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - a new, modern-spelling text, based on the Quarto text of 1608 - on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, allusions and much else - detailed introduction considers composition, sources, performances and changing critical attitudes to the play - illustrated with production photographs and related art - includes 'The Ballad of King Lear' and related offshoots - full index to introduction and commentary - durable sewn binding for lasting use 'not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare. This is a major achievement of twentieth-century scholarship.' Times Literary Supplement
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 04 Jan 2001
ISBN 10: 0192839926
ISBN 13: 9780192839923